GREENVILLE COUNTY, S.C. (FOX Carolina) – South Carolina Department of Transportation rolled out plans to repair the East Butler Road bridge over I-385 in Mauldin.

Road leaders rolled out the project during a community meeting in Simpsonville.

Officials said repairs will lift current load restrictions for heavy vehicles, make the bridge safer, and keep traffic moving along the busy connector that carries 25,000 drivers through Mauldin every day.

Right now, the bridge can’t handle large trucks, but this project will change that.

“For freight vehicles, for instance, like construction vehicles, U-Hauls, box trucks, moving vans, those sorts of things, they can’t go the route they had chosen if there’s a load restriction,” Ginny Jones with SCDOT explained.

This project is part of a statewid

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